Snailfish
noun, plural (especially collectively) snailfish (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) snailfishes.
1.
any of several elongate, smooth-skinned fishes of the family Liparididae, inhabiting cold seas, having the ventral fins modified to form a sucking disk.
noun (pl) -fish, -fishes
1.
another name for sea snail
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